One of the benefits of being left alone during the day is the guilt that your Person develops. That guilt will build up and overwhelm her natural tendency to take a load off and instead she will play with you out in the Dark. Being out at night is so much fun, whether you are a kid at heart or a little red dog. Smells are more smelly, sounds are more intriguing. Mice creep beneath the snow on secret pathways and owls fly on silent wings. You can pounce and sniff and run and dig with abandon. The moon will light your way if there is enough snow on the ground and moving shadows are the perfect excuse for acting wild.
Go outside right now and look around. Pounce and sniff and look up at the moon - the stars will twinkle at you and you'll be glad to be outside in the Dark. And if you live where I do you'll be happy to go back inside too!
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Looking up at the moon, or around at it's illumination of a snow covered landscape, is indeed a great nighttime activity. One might suppose it requires the rare coincidence of clear skies, moon above the horizon, snow, and a spirit of adventure. Not so! Imagination, spirit, and urban light pollution are more than enough to compensate for cloudy skies and a lazy moon, not expected to arise before 4:49 am as a faint waning crescent.
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